Maternal lifestyle during pregnancy, as well as early nutrition and the environment infants
are raised in, are considered relevant factors for the prevention of childhood obesity. Several …

Childhood obesity is an important public health issue. We aimed to systematically review
studies that used group‐based trajectory modelling approaches to investigate body mass …

Background: The persistently high prevalence of allergic diseases in Western industrial
nations and the limited possibilities of causal therapy make evidence-based …

Aims The relationship between life-course body mass index (BMI) trajectories and adult risk
for cardiovascular disease (CVD) is poorly described. In a longitudinal cohort, we describe …

Background Overweight or obesity is increasingly recognized as a possible risk factor for
childhood asthma. Objectives We aimed to meta‐analyse the association between …

Many observational studies and some randomized trials demonstrate how fetal growth can
be influenced by environmental insults (for example, maternal infections) and preventive …

Abstract Purpose of Review Reproductive-aged women (aged 19 to 50 years) are a key
population warranting focused research for the prevention of overweight and obesity. This …

METHODS: Bayesian hierarchical piecewise regression modeling was used to analyze the
BMI trajectories of 2717 young adults who had up to 8 measures of BMI from childhood …

OBJECTIVES: To examine how overweight and obesity at specific ages and overall BMI
growth patterns throughout childhood predict cardiometabolic phenotypes at 11 to 12 years …

Background We investigated the individual and additive effects of three modifiable maternal
metabolic factors, including pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity, gestational weight gain …